Ability of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Radiomic Features to Distinguish Breast Carcinoma from Breast Lymphoma

Table 4

The results of ROC analysis of FDG uptake metrics for breast lymphoma versus breast carcinoma.

Variable	Lymphoma		Carcinoma		P^a value	AUC	P^b value
	Median	Range	Median	Range
SUVmin	0.80	0.12–2.84	0.96	0.35–1.77	0.971	0.437	0.379
SUVmean	4.75	1.03–17.02	2.38	0.79–8.29	<0.001	0.747	0.001
SUVstd	2.04	0.33–12.30	0.88	0.15–3.61	0.001	0.755	<0.001
SUVmax	10.69	2.10–43.21	4.76	1.05–18.43	0.001	0.747	0.001
SUVpeak	9.15	0.00–40.65	2.78	0.00–16.33	<0.001	0.749	<0.001
TLG	42.24	2.24–4031.99	9.90	0.55–2240.40	0.001	0.754	<0.001

Note. P^a refers to the significance for ROC curves, P^b is for Mann–Whitney U tests between breast lymphoma and breast carcinoma.